Christmas in November

I want to scream. I love the Christmas/holiday season as much as anyone else, but things are really getting out of hand. People have been arguing about the commercialization of the season forever, and I'm in agreement. I'm on my soap box about this today after reading this article from KAIT-TV in Jonesboro, Arkansas about "Holiday Shopping in Full Swing." Come on people, aren't we getting ahead of ourselves here? We haven't even had Thanksgiving yet, and people are already in "full swing" for Christmas shopping??? And Santa? Give me a break. Sitting in the massage chair at Brookstone in the middle of October with Christmas music playing in the background should have been my wake up call...